War of Spanish Succession - Regiment Monferrat

[murat1970]

1706 France - Reggiment Monferrat
1/72 strelets
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[Fire at Will]

Nice, quite a striking uniform, where did you find the details?

[murat1970]

Robert Hall - Flags and Uniforms of the French Infantry under Louis XIV 1688-1714

[Minuteman]

A colourful and very well-painted unit! I particularly like the flags with the large white cravats...how did you create these?

The Regiment Montferrat is, I presume, the Piedmontese regiment 'Royal-Montferrat', which was relatively short-lived and actually disbanded during the course of 1706: http://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?titl ... Infanterie The yellow facings and stockings are unusual for a French infantry unit of the period, but are certainly striking....and possibly also unique?

[Rich W]

These look great, congratulations. I agree that the yellow really makes these guys stand out.

[murat1970]

A colourful and very well-painted unit! I particularly like the flags with the large white cravats...how did you create these?

The Regiment Montferrat is, I presume, the Piedmontese regiment 'Royal-Montferrat', which was relatively short-lived and actually disbanded during the course of 1706: http://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?titl ... Infanterie The yellow facings and stockings are unusual for a French infantry unit of the period, but are certainly striking....and possibly also unique?

I'm create large white caravate, after bad experiment with paper et texile, whith green stuff sculpted. at today it is the best sistem for me

[C M Dodson]

Very nice indeed.

Their is a real presence about these troops.

Love the flags.

Best wishes,

Chris

[Michael Robert]

Hi Murat
More WSS. Wondeful
The painting is very nice and me too, I like the flags
Will take your flag bearers as inspiration for mine
Michael

[murat1970]

A colourful and very well-painted unit! I particularly like the flags with the large white cravats...how did you create these?

The Regiment Montferrat is, I presume, the Piedmontese regiment 'Royal-Montferrat', which was relatively short-lived and actually disbanded during the course of 1706: http://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?titl ... Infanterie The yellow facings and stockings are unusual for a French infantry unit of the period, but are certainly striking....and possibly also unique?

with yellow facing there are Greder (allemand), Reynold (swiss), Clare (Irish), but with facing and stocking yellow there are only Monferrat et Berwick (irish with red uniform)

[Minuteman]

with yellow facing there are Greder (allemand), Reynold (swiss), Clare (Irish), but with facing and stocking yellow there are only Monferrat et Berwick (irish with red uniform)

Thank you. Yes, I am aware of the various 'foreign' regiments with yellow facings - in fact I posted a couple of pictures of my Regiment of Clare here a few weeks ago! The unusual thing I was referring to was/is yellow facings for a 'native' French regiment ie: a grey-coated unit; having said that, it is possible that a Regiment such as Royal Montferrat may have counted as foreign in Louis XIV's army. Almost all native French units have either grey (grey/white) red or blue facings, with a few exceptions.

There are one of two native French regiments later in the C18th with yellow facings, according to Funcken.